Which Clustering Do You Want? Inducing Your Ideal Clustering with Minimal Feedback

Which Clustering Do You Want? Inducing Your Ideal Clustering with Minimal Feedback

While traditional research on text clustering has largely focused on grouping documents by topic, it is conceivable that a user may want to cluster documents along other dimensions, such as the author’s mood, gender, age, or sentiment. Without knowing the user’s intention, a clustering algorithm will only group documents along the most prominent dimension, which may not be the one the user desi...

Do you want sugar with your tree?

Why do we plant trees into our landscapes? The answer is easy. We plant them because they filter dust and absorb pollution, provide shade, shelter, deflect and soften noise, reduce wind velocity and glare. The aesthetic of tree lined streets and green spaces have been shown to have positive psychological and health benefits to human society including lower rates of mental illness, violence and ...

Do you Recommend an Interdisciplinary Field to Your Graduate Student?

Do You Want to Talk to Your Router? Probably Not!

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EmailValet: Where do you want to read your Email?

This paper describes EmailValet, a system that learns users’ email-reading preferences on emailcapable wireless platforms – specifically, on two-way pagers with small ”qwerty” keyboards and an 8-line 30-character display. The paper more specifically presents results comparing the ability of different learning methods to form models that can predict whether a given message should be forwarded to...